'She's Just Awful': Critics Swing After Sinema Ditches Dems Just Days After Warnock W

[signalmankenneth]

"Apparently 'independent' is the new way to say 'corporate lobbyist,'" said one critic.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona announced early Friday morning that she has officially left the Democratic Party, registering as an independent in her state and surprising very few people who have seen her as a major obstacle to her party's progressive agenda while serving powerful corporate interests.

"In the most shocking, surprising, and unexpected news in modern American political history," MSNBC host and commentator Mehdi Hasan

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with clear sarcasm, "Senator Kyrsten Sinema is leaving the Democratic Party."

The move makes sense, Hasan continued, "because 1) she was never really a Democrat, and 2) she can’t win a Dem primary in 2024. So Sinema being Sinema…"

In an op-ed in The Arizona Republic explaining her decision, Sinema equated the far-right and increasingly fascist faction of the Republican Party with those on the Democratic side pushing harder for action on climate, economic equality, and universal healthcare by expressing her concern that "the loudest, most extreme voices continue to drive each party toward the fringes."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...nema-ditches-dems-just-days-after-warnock-win

 

[Hawkeye10]

Power is going to let her keep her committee chairs?

I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[Nordberg]

She did not ditch the Dems. She votes with them about 90 percent of the time. She will still caucus with them and hold her committee seats.